Post & Recipe in English and Chinese (中英食谱) “One of the best festive gifts, BBQ sliced pork made into gold coin shape. Tasty and symbolizing.” “新年佳节送礼首选的金钱肉干,美味,容易入口,也寓意着金钱入口(袋)。” Home baked products are usually better in quality, and most importantly, it goes easier on your wallet. Free from MSG, preservative, and artificial flavor & coloring. You can…
Category: Festive Gourmet
Festive Food
My Valentine’s All-Day Breakfast
“Romantic coffee pancakes with smoked salmon, cheesy scrambled egg & flowers.” Valentine’s Day is always romantic. Though we hope that everyday is just as great as the festive day itself, but who doesn’t wish it to be a little more special and memorable, and simply to mark the day. If cooking dinner is not for…
Bird Nest Pineapple Cakes (燕窝黄梨酥)
“Bird nest incorporated into pineapple paste filling, just feeling luscious this Lunar festival.” Making these into cake blocks in order to stuff in more bird nest into its pineapple filling. The chunks of pineapple cake would look more generous this way. Same pineapple filling recipe I had previously, or even store-bought readymade kind of pineapple…
Festive Dish: Steamed Pork Belly with Taro Pineapple & White Radish (年菜: 好意头(芋头)旺来扣肉)
“It’s not your ordinary Kou Rou (steamed pork belly) dish.” I have my conventional recipe for Kou Rou dish. And here, I was to bring my pork Belly dish to a new level, with the necessary festive twist. Simply to prepare it as one of our Chinese Lunar New Year dishes! I would like to…
Simple Rosemary Cajun Chicken Chop with Mashed Kudzu Root
“It’s our ritual to cook this chicken chop for Christmas, I would still add a twist to my already-good recipe.” Chicken chop for this Christmas Eve was a little bit simpler and quicker to cook as I was out to run errand urgently the whole day. Only managed to fix the meal the last minute,…
Salmon Sushi Cake
“Happy birthday, pretty!” Having to bake so many cakes Regularly, I was kinda feeling lazy. It might also be lacking of surprise element to the birthday celebration. Making a sushi cake not only special, sushi is also our favorite food, especially with salmon as its filling. Hence, I decided to make this as a birthday…